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On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 10:27 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 24.08.2009, at 10:09, Michael Haupt wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Bert Freudenberg<bert at freudenbergs.de 
> > > wrote:
> >> No, I would rather create a squeak-users list for those not  
> >> interested in
> >> developing Squeak itself, but just "with" Squeak. IMHO the commits  
> >> messages
> >> make the community development process visible, which is a Good  
> >> Thing.
> >
> > before anything else: I like the fine-grained commit messages *very*
> > much as they make immediately apparent what has been done, by whom,
> > and where it has been uploaded.
> >
> > As for the target mailing list, squeak-dev has obviously moved away
> > from being solely about developing *Squeak*. The commit mails kind of
> > push the fact that squeak-dev, after all, *is* a developers' list, in
> > people's faces. Asking all users not interested in Squeak
> > *development* to go and join another list may be asking too much; it
> > has a distinct smell of "go away if you're not interested in this".
> > (I'm deliberately exaggerating a bit here.)
> >
> > As for developers, some of them may rather like to inform themselves
> > about commits in a batch-oriented way; this has been asked for
> > already. A dedicated commit mailing list can be configured to send
> > single e-mails or batches by each subscriber.
> >
> > In a nutshell, I'd opt for a commit mailing list.
> 
> 
> How about this -
> 
> PROPOSAL: we make the detailed commit notices go to a separate list as  
> soon as someone has added a "digest" feature. This would send a daily  
> or weekly summary to squeak-dev, containing just the commit summary a  
> link to the detailed diffs. Bonus points for listing affected classes.
> 
> Btw, the code is at http://squeaksource.com/ss.html
> 
> - Bert -

I much much prefer your earlier suggestion.

Ken
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